{"id":133,"date":"2009-08-25T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T21:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-08-25T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T21:54:05","slug":"computer-worm-disguised-as-pink-floyd-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2009\/08\/computer-worm-disguised-as-pink-floyd-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer worm disguised as Pink Floyd video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A computer &#8220;worm&#8221; disguised as a <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> music video is tunneling its way through Chinese social networking site Renren.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Pinkren-A<\/em> worm tricks users into helping it propagate by making itself appear to be a video for Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Wish You Were Here.&#8221; When users click on it, the worm executes programming that helps it spread across the network.<\/p>\n<p>Renren is a popular Chinese social networking site akin to Facebook. It has 40 million users.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the worm has no malicious payload except to continue spreading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer &#8220;worm&#8221; disguised as a Pink Floyd music video is tunneling its way through Chinese social networking site Renren. The Pinkren-A worm tricks users into helping it propagate by making itself appear to be a video for Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Wish You Were Here.&#8221; When users click on it, the worm executes programming that helps it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}